The celebration is generally served as the moment sharing See Thanksgiving on p. 4 By CHRISTINA HE AND IRIS MU ____________________ Thanksgiving Lunch at Marina del Rey gave faculty, staff, and students an opportu- nity to get together for a tradi- tional meal. A Thanksgiving feast had drawn almost every Language Academy students’ eyes to celebrate this traditional American holiday on Novem- ber 16. It was not only because it was the first time most stu- dents had the chance to cele- brate Thanksgiving with Lan- guage Academy faculty but also because the amazing feast was held on a luxury yacht at Marina del Rey. Thanksgiving is a cultural tradition holiday celebrated in the U.S., which is on the fourth Thursday of Novem- ber every year. Ice Skating in Santa Monica Friday, November 30, 2012 Meet at 1:15pm (return by 5:30pm) As Los Angeles gets chillier and winter approaches, ice skating becomes a popular activity for friends and families. Join Silvia, Blaire and Luke in beautiful Santa Monica for a day of outdoor ice skating. Make sure to bring a scarf or jacket! To sign up, see Silvia in JEF 200B. Bring $5 cash for payment. Group Picture Friday, November 30, 2012 Meet at 12:00pm Come be a part of the USC Language Academy Group Picture right after Oral Skills on Friday, November 30th in front of Doheny Library at NOON. Right after, students who signed up for the weekly activity will go Ice Skating at Santa Monica! All Aboard for Thanksgiving Dinner INSIDE THIS ISSUE: Language Labs 2/ 3 Fabulous Fabergé 4 Preparing a Turkey 5 Party Ideas 5 Campus Calendar 6 U PCOMING A CTIVITIES The Academy News NOVEMBER 20. 2012 VOLUME 55, ISSUE 11 Check out The Academy News online: www.usc.edu /langacad.Go to “Student Information” and then click on “The Academy News.” The Faberge Collection is on exhibit at the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana. See details on p. 4. Students danced the Gangnam Style on the deck of the ship.
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The celebration is generally
served as the moment sharing
See Thanksgiving on p. 4
By CHRISTINA HE
AND IRIS MU
____________________
Thanksgiving Lunch at
Marina del Rey gave faculty,
staff, and students an opportu-
nity to get together for a tradi-
tional meal.
A Thanksgiving feast had
drawn almost every Language
Academy students’ eyes to
celebrate this traditional
American holiday on Novem-
ber 16. It was not only because
it was the first time most stu-
dents had the chance to cele-
brate Thanksgiving with Lan-
guage Academy faculty but
also because the amazing feast
was held on a luxury yacht at
Marina del Rey.
Thanksgiving is a cultural
tradition holiday celebrated
in the U.S., which is on the
fourth Thursday of Novem-
ber every year.
Ice Skating in Santa Monica Friday, November 30, 2012 Meet at 1:15pm (return by 5:30pm) As Los Angeles gets chillier and winter approaches, ice skating becomes a popular activity for friends and families. Join Silvia, Blaire and Luke in beautiful Santa Monica for a day of outdoor ice skating. Make sure to bring a scarf or jacket! To sign up, see Silvia in JEF 200B. Bring $5 cash for payment.
Group Picture Friday, November 30, 2012 Meet at 12:00pm Come be a part of the USC Language Academy Group Picture right after Oral Skills on Friday, November 30th in front of Doheny Library at NOON. Right after, students who signed up for the weekly activity will go Ice Skating at Santa Monica!
All Aboard for Thanksgiving Dinner
I N S I D E
T H I S I S S U E :
Language
Labs
2/
3
Fabulous
Fabergé
4
Preparing a
Turkey
5
Party Ideas 5
Campus
Calendar
6
UP C O M I N G AC T I V I T I E S
The Academy News N O V E M B E R 2 0 . 2 0 1 2 V O L U M E 5 5 , I S S U E 1 1
Check out The Academy News online: www.usc.edu/langacad.Go to “Student Information” and then click on “The Academy News.”
The Faberge Collection is on exhibit at the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana. See details on p. 4.
Students danced the Gangnam Style on the deck of the ship.
P A G E 2
Developing Your Writing
Style (Levels 1 & 2): Express your ideas clearly and show your personality in your writing and presentations. Learn how to include your views and experiences to make your sentences more interesting.
GRE/GMAT Preparation (Levels 4-6): Find out the best ways to succeed on the new exam.
IELTS Preparation (Levels 3-6): Learn how to do well on the IELTS exam.
Statement of Purpose Workshop (Levels 4-6): Learn how to write an amazing SOP for graduate school. Bring your draft statement of purpose to every session.
Speak English Fluently (Level 1-3): KNOW THE CODE! Maybe you can speak some English, but when you hear Americans talking socially, they use different English. This language lab will give you everyday English phrases so you can understand what Americans are saying, answer quickly, and make new friends.
Conversation Groups: Practice speaking English by level with USC students. This is an interactive discussion in which you will participate in groups about several interesting topics. This is your opportunity to practice and to ask questions to native speakers.
Monday, November 26, 2012
Time Location Description Facilitator
11-12pm
JEF 124 Developing Your Writing Style (Levels 1 & 2)
Heather
DRB 265 GRE/GMAT (Levels 4-6) James
JEF Courtyard
Conversation Level 1 & 2 Luke C.
JEF Courtyard
Conversation Level 3 & 4 Jackie
JEF Courtyard
Conversation Levels 5 & 6 Rachel
12-1pm
DRB 265 IELTS Preparation
James
JEF 124
Conversation Level 1-3 Jackie
JEF 124
Conversation Level 4-6 Luke C.
VKC 202 Statement of Purpose (Levels 4-6)
Marisa 1:30-2:30pm
THHB10 Developing Your Writing Style (Levels 1 & 2)
Heather
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Time Location Description Facilitator
11-12pm
JEF Courtyard
Conversation Level 1-3 Rachel
JEF Courtyard Conversation Level 4-6
Luke C.
JEF Courtyard Conversation Level 1-3
Luke C.
12-1pm
JEF Courtyard Conversation Level 4-6
Joyce
JEF 203 Speak English Fluently (Levels 1-3)
Diana
1:30-2:30pm VKC 202 GRE/GMAT (Levels 4-6)
James
FEATURED CONVERSATION GROUP LEADER: RACHEL
Hello! My name is Rachel. I have lived all over the US, but LA is my favorite city. I love strong coffee, dark chocolate, and hot sauce on pretty much everything; my hobbies include
painting (badly!), photography, and hiking in Griffith Park. I'm studying Political Science at USC, but I'm also very interested
in history and literature.
P A G E 3
Statement of Purpose
Workshop (Levels 4-6): Learn how to write an amazing SOP for graduate school. Bring your draft in-troduction to this week’s session. See more detailed description online.
Reading Power (Levels 1-3): Do you want to be-come a better, faster reader? Attend this lab to get tips and tricks on how to improve your reading skills.
IELTS Preparation (Levels 3-6): Learn how to do well on the IELTS exam.
Speak English Fluently (Level 1-3): KNOW THE CODE! Maybe you can speak some English, but when you hear Americans talking socially, they use different English. This lan-guage lab will give you eve-ryday English phrases so you can understand what Americans are saying, an-swer quickly, and make new friends.
Conversation Groups: Practice speaking English by level with USC students. This is an interactive dis-cussion in which you will participate in groups about several interesting topics. This is your opportunity to practice and to ask ques-tions to native English speakers.
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Time Location Description Facilitator
11-12pm
JEF 124 Statement of Purpose (Levels 4-6)
Marisa
JEF Courtyard
Conversation Level 1 Megan
JEF Courtyard
Conversation Level 2 Anastasia
JEF Courtyard
Conversation Level 3 Luke P.
JEF Courtyard
Conversation Levels 4-6 Blaire
12-1pm
JEF 124 Reading Power (Levels 1-3) Marilyn
JEF Courtyard
Conversation Level 1,2 Anastasia
JEF Courtyard
Conversation Level 3 Luke P.
JEF Courtyard
Conversation Level 4-6 Blaire
FEATURED CONVERSATION GROUP LEADER: BLAIRE
My name is Blaire and I am the graduate assistant at the USC Language Academy. I am in my first year studying Public Diplomacy at USC’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. In my free time, I dance, go to the beach, go to the gym, but most of
the time I am studying for school. I also really enjoy traveling, trying new foods (I am a vegetarian!) and meeting new people. I like to
talk about different cultures, politics, sports, arts and much more!
Thursday, November 29, 2012
Time Location Description Facilitator
11-12pm
JEF 124 Statement of Purpose (Levels 4-6)
Jeminah
JEF Courtyard
Conversation Levels 1,2 Megan
JEF Courtyard
Conversation Level 3 Luke P.
JEF Courtyard
Conversation Levels 4-6 Blaire
JEF 124 Speak English Fluently (Levels 1-3)
Marilyn
12-1pm JEF Courtyard
Conversation Levels 1,2 Blaire
JEF Courtyard
Conversation Level 3 Anastasia
JEF Courtyard Conversation Levels 4-6
Luke P.
1-2pm VKC 211 IELTS Preparation
James
P A G E 4
Thanksgiving Dinner at Marina Del Rey continued from p. 1
By CHRISTY ZHU
“Diamonds are girls’ best
friends.” This is a saying that
always indicates the relation-
ship between girls and their
jewelry. If you are interested in
or love diamonds and jewelry,
you should go to the Fabergé
exhibition, which is being held
in Bowers Museum, from June
23 to next January 06, 2013.
(20002 N. Main Street, Santa
Ana, CA 92706, parking for a
$6 fee.)
This exhibition shows mas-
ter jeweler and designer of Carl
Fabergé’s great works. Espe-
cially those meticulous craft
designs for the Tsars, every
piece is unique and legendary.
These artistic works involve
wide range jewelry, from ciga-
rette cases, desk clocks, picture
frames, vase to the eggs. Every-
thing you imagined can be dis-
played in this exhibition. The
eggs impressed me deeply.
Usually in Russian families,
giving an egg to the children as
a gift is a tradition for celebrat-
ing a festival or some important
dates. Actually these eggs are
not normal eggs for food; they
are the same size of egg-shape
boxes for packaging another
treasure gift inside. The most
famous eggs made by the brand
of Fabergé, for Alexander III
and Nicholas II of Russia,
which are referred to as the
“Imperial eggs.”
Sandy Bass, this exhibi-
tion narrator, said that among
the whole Imperial Easter eggs,
50 eggs were made by Fabergé
house, which was a large num-
ber. And by now, it is hard to
get a real Fabergé egg from the
market; if you got one from
San Diego or Los Angeles,
probably it was a fake Fabergé
egg. Why are the Fabergé eggs
valuable? Not only the back-
ground and history of individ-
ual Fabergé egg, but also their
exquisite workmanship are still
top - ranking. The enameled
colors on the jewelry are even
not available today. However,
rich people and imperial mem-
bers could pick the colors they
liked and made them as the
patterns or styles that they
wanted to. What a sweet ser-
vice they had! If you have free time, I
strongly recommend visiting
this exhibition. You will get
lots of interesting stories back
of the treasures and appreciate
the beauty of Fabergé.
The Exhibition of Fabergé: Imperial Jeweler to the Tsars
turkey and pumpkin pie
with the whole family.
Marina del Rey is lo-
cated in the west coast of
Los Angeles, near the LAX
Airport. It is the largest man
-made small craft harbor in
the world. Indeed, the mo-
ment our bus entered the
marina, the millions of deli-
cate yachts, lying silently
on waves, surprised us
greatly.
On the yacht, students
and faculty and staff sat
around the tables, talked to
each other and enjoyed the
scenery of the slowly mov-
ing yacht, with carefully
prepared 3-course meal,
including the most impor-
tant dish---turkey.
While enjoying lunch,
every student had a chance
to face the camera to ex-
press their appreciation to
their family, friends and the
things they cherished.
The most exciting part
on the deck was Gangnam
Style! Student dancers, who
came from China, United
States, Korea, Saudi Arabia,
and different places of the
world, participated eagerly
in Language Academy’s
version of Gangnam Style,
originally created by a
popular Korean singer PSY.
When the music started,
their imitative but unique
dancing steps made the
watching crowd enthusias-
tic. The dance was video-
taped and will be shown at
Closing Ceremony.
Christy Zhu said, “ I’m
really happy to have lunch
with everybody in Lan-
guage Academy. And
there’s so much fun in
Gangnam style, and it was
the funnest activity so far! “
Miya Cheng added,
“I’m so impressed by stu-
dents’ horse riding dance.
Their ‘Gangnam Style’ is so
infectious that I even
wanted to join in myself! ”
Hornblower Cruises cruised the marina during the meal.
Above: The first egg created by the House of Fabergé in 1885, which
was commissioned by Tsar Alexan-
der III.. Right: Sandy Bass stand-ing in front of the poster of Fabergé
exhibition.
P A G E 5
By CHRISTY WANG
The most traditional dish on Thanksgiving Day is roast turkey. People al-ways live with thankfulness when they prepare for Thanksgiving Dinner be-cause they want to thank god for giving them food and a good life.
It also reminds us that we should thank our rela-tives with a heart of grati-tude whom usually support us. When the father slice the turkey to his family, which is the happiness.
wine, ginger juice, garlic, pepper corn, black pepper corn, lemon juice, soy sauce, star anise, rose-mary, green onion and onion in a large stockpot for 30 minutes.
Use a toothpick to fas-ten the turkey legs.
Spread on BBQ sauce and put it into oven.
Preheat the oven to 500 degrees F for 10 minutes.
Put the turkey into oven for 30 minutes. See Turkey on p. 6
Thanksgiving Dinner
Hold a Private Film Festival Just for You
By YIQING (CLAIRE) LIN
As an absolute indoor person, I
always dedicate my holidays to books, movies, or small groups of friends, and carefully avoid situations that may include crowds of exciting people (such as the early morning of the Black Friday, outside Target). If you haven’t planned anything for the coming Thanksgiving holiday, now is the perfect timing for you to try out the idea of spending holidays that I have been enjoying for so long: hold a private film festival just for yourself.
The idea of holding a film festi-val may seem fancy, but what you all need to do is just watch movies. However, it’s still a little bit more than choosing a random movie and watch-ing it in your pajamas: you need to have a theme, and a series of mov-ies that match the theme. For exam-ple, you can have a film festival under the theme of “Tim Burton’s Imaginary
World”, then films to be screened will be: Edward Scissorhands, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and the most recent Frankenweenie.
The theme for this film festival and the amount of films is 100% up to you. After all, this is your private film festival. For girls who enjoy romantic films, have a chick-flick themed film festival and schedule movies such as The Holiday, He’s Just Not That Into You, Days of Summer, etc. For those
who love Jane Austen’s novels, try watch movies such as Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice (BBC 1995 version, please) and Becoming Jane.
Watching movies under a certain theme, or having what I call a “private film festival”, is not only a gimmick that makes you feel better (you have to admit sometimes people feel left out when they stay at home and watch movies alone). The way you combine movies by different direc-tors, from different regions and in dif-ferent languages will give you a brand new view of them, especially for those you have watched for so many times. The more diverse or even weird but reasonable combina-tion you have, the more unique and interesting perception you will get.
I think I will have a “horror night” theme this year. What about you?
FILM
The Interrupters
Friday, November 30: 7- 10 p.m.
Eileen Norris Cinema Theatre (NCT)
Admission is free.
Reservations
required.
To RSVP, visit
“Events Calen-
dar” on the USC
website.
Critically ac-
claimed director
and USC School of Cinematic Arts
alum John Singleton will introduce a
screening of The Interrupters, an in-
credibly moving and surprising docu-
mentary that follows three “violence
interrupters” who work to protect their
communities from the violence they
once employed. From acclaimed direc-
tor Steve James and best-selling author
Alex Kotlowitz, this film is an unusually
intimate journey into the stubborn per-
sistence of violence in our cities. Shot
over the course of a year, The Interrupt-
ers captures a period when Chicago
became a national symbol for urban
violence.
MUSIC
Jazz Night with CreSCendo
Thursday, November 29: 7 to 10p.m
Ground Zero Performance Cafe
Free
The USC Thornton CreSCendo Vocal
Jazz Ensemble, led by Sara Gazerik,
headlines this ongoing series featuring a
variety of student jazz ensembles.
LECTURE
Can Business Models End Poverty
Thursday, November 29:
12:30 1:50 p.m.
Doheny Memorial Library 240
Free
Co-Sponsored
by the USC
Stevens Center
for
Innova-
tion and Los Angeles Community Im-
pact (LACI) B Lab certifies businesses
as B Corporations that meet rigorous
standards of social and environmental
performance, accountability, and trans-
parency. B Lab is to sustainable busi-
nesses as Fair Trade certification is to
coffee and USDA Organic certification
is to milk.
USC Language
Academy
Rossier School of
Education
Phone: 213-740-0080
Fax: 213-740-0088
Web: www.usc.edu/langacad
CAMPUS CALENDAR: November 21-30
The Academy News is a weekly newsletter pro-duced by students in the Journalism Elective of the USC Language Academy. All students in the Lan-guage Academy Program are encouraged to send news stories and photos to Sonja Lovelace at [email protected].
Check out The Academy News online at www.usc.edu/langacad.Go to “Student Informa-
tion” and then click on “The Academy News.”
P A G E 6 N O V E M B E R 2 0 . 2 0 1 2
Turkey Continued from p. 5
After 30 minutes, take it out
and turn it over. Set the oven to 340 degrees F for 2 hours.
Put it into oven again. Then, a roasted turkey will
finish after 2 hours. You can enjoy the thanksgiving dinner with your family. I hope you will have a great time.
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NEWS STAFF
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Assistant Editor: Christina He
Reporters: Ziad Almimony, Miya Cheng, Charles Hsieh, Cathy Huang,
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